"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Think Globally, Act Locally

by Lee

This kid deserves a medal.

A 19-year-old man with a history of mental illness was arrested and charged yesterday in the beating and burning death of a burglar trying to break into a Northwest Baltimore home, police said. 

The incident began about 11 p.m. Sunday, when Dwayne Gibson spotted a man in his grandmother’s back yard in the 3900 block of Grantley Road, police said. 

Gibson is accused of hitting the 43-year-old man on the head repeatedly with a crowbar, police said. As the victim lay on concrete steps leading to the basement, police said, Gibson allegedly poured a flammable liquid on the man and lit a match. 

The man was quickly engulfed in flames and suffered burns over 90 percent of his body.

Note to burglars: to avoid breaking into the house of an old woman with a mentally disturbed grandson, who subsequently beats you and sets you on fire, consider getting a real job.

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